The Washington Institute just published a piece by Richard Barrett, the head of the monitoring team for the UN's 1267 al Qaeda/Taliban Committee. Richard's piece discusses how al Qaeda has responded to -- and tried to take advantage of -- the global financial crisis. Here is an excerpt: The deepenin...

My colleague Matt Levitt and I had a piece in The New Republic today, on the growing involvement of terrorist groups in criminal activity -- and particularly in the drug trade. In the piece, we have some recommendations for the Obama administration on how they can make greater use of law enforcement...